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Lena Stone
Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 41
Marlin, Texas, December 11, 1902
(Paper may be Dec 1, 1902-lsc)
WITH THE COURTS.
County Court.
In the
county court Isaac Bowers plead quilty to abusive language and was fined $5.00
and the trimmings. The defendant is a negro.
George
Mack was taken to Reagan Friday by Deputy Sheriff Steen to stand an examining
trial on a charge of robbing another negro of a pistol and some money. The
state is represented by Assistant County Attorney D. H Boyles.
The county
judge has instructed the county attorney to substitute the papers in the cases
against Hugh Burnes, Tom Cronin and I. R. Thomas. The original papers
having been lost. The defendants are charged with obstructing the public
high way by laying the track of the I & G N railway on the public road leading
from Marlin toward the Falls, the offense having been committed, as alleged, in
November 1900, when the I & G N was entering Marlin. The cases have never
been tried but they have never been abated.
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